Truly Inspirational Quotes

What They Said in O Eight.

My favorite quotes from films released last year.

- "En-ra-ha!"
Eddie Marsan in "Happy-Go-Lucky".

- "You broke my heart into a million pieces and now my cock doesn't want to be near you."
Jason Segel in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall".

- "Beautiful women are invisible."
Dennis Hopper in "Elegy".

- "Please put out her grace's hair."
Ralph Fiennes in "The Duchess".

- "It's like my father got reincarnated into the body of a freaking little drama critic."
Steve Coogan in "Hamlet 2".

- "Fuck who you like."
Kate Winslet in "Revolutionary Road".

- "Chronic dissatisfaction!"
Penélope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona".

Expect more as I watch more films from 2008.
Happy New Year to everyone!

"I grabbed Penélope and with one motion tore her clothes off. As fate would have it she had not yet changed into costume, so it was her own expensive dress I mutilated. "

- from Woody Allen's faux journal while shooting "Vicky Cristina Barcelona".

"We were attracted to each other at the party, that was obvious! You're on your own for the night, that's also obvious... we're two adults."

"I'm not anti-American, I just wish they would learn things."
- Miriam Margolyes on "The Graham Norton Show"

September in August.

"That's my problem, I always wanted to live".
- Lane (Mia Farrow) in Woody Allen's "September".

Hedgehog or Fox?

"...Gabe, he's always picked the wrong women except for Judy; she's the first sane woman he ever fell for.

He's always attracted to the crazies, the nutcases for some reason...

I got a couple of theories about it: one is that deep down somewhere he knows it's not gonna work, so he suffers and that kind of atones for some sort of early guilt he's got. Over what I don't know...

Another is, you know, like all of us he grew up on movies and novels where doomed love was romantic."

- Jack (Sydney Pollack) talking about his friend Gabe (Woody Allen) in Allen's "Husbands and Wives".